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ts for Busy Housekeepers. | Reglpes and Other Valuable Information of Particular lscerestgto Women Folks, Cr. od 3 ' PRESERVING. Preserved Watermelon.--Of a large watermelon use red part enly. Cut in strips some three inches long, remove all seeds; weigh the melon and to every pound of fruit add three-quarters of a pound of granulated sugar; sift the sugar over the fruit and let it stand a short time until it forms its own juice, then drain the juice off, bring to a boil, and <k'm well, boiling for some time; then add the melon meat. Add two le- mons sliced thin (skins not renov- ed) and three or four yieces of givn- ger root; cook until fruit is trans: parent and the juice tegins to "syrup." It will take <scveral hours to cook this preserve, for there 1s s. much water ir tiie ne lon. Tt is delicious. Us> the white part of the melcn for sweet pickle. Spiced Gooseberries. -- Steam four quarts of gooseberries and re- move stems. Cover with cold water, add half a teaspoonful of salt, and boil for half an hour. Add four pcunds of sugar, two table- spoons of ground cinnamon, one teaspoonful of ground cloves, half a teaspoonful of allspice, and one- fourth teaspoonful of mace. Cook until thick. Stir almost constant- ly. Seal in pint jars or in regular jam pots. A fine relish for meats in winter. Fig and Peach Preserves.--Take perfectly ripe freestone peaches and perfectly ripe figs, with a chop- ping knife chop each to a mush and mix in equal proportions. Add three-quarters of a pound of sugar lo every pound of mixed fruit. Put in a granite kettle and cook to a om. stirring often as it gets thick. ut up in small glass jars. So many persons consider fig preserves insipid, the blended fruits have a delightful flavor, and with rich, clotted cream and hot buttered bis- cuits, this makes a very dainty dish for Juncheon. Cucumber Pickles.--Into a stone jar put one gallon of good vinegar and one cup each of sar, sugar, and mustard; stir well,, and add cucumbers, well wiped with a dry cloth, as you gather them, keeping a plate over them so they will be well under the liquor. No scum should form, but if it does, take out the pickles and prepare a fresh mixture. These are ready for the table in a fortnight, and I have kept them for a year. I usually take out the small, nice ones, of good shape, put them in glass jars, cover with prepared vinegar and put away. No heating is required, and I have never had any trouble if the pickles are kept under the vinegar. B. B. Canned Watermelon.--Pare off the thin green rind, cut the melon (or white rind) in pieces and weigh it. Cook in clear water until part- Jy transparent, but not until likely to break. Take out the pieces in a dish. There will be nearly enough juice that drains from the pieces; add a little from the kettle if nec- essary. With the juice put sugar to the amount of one-half pound to a pound of the fruit as it weighed " when raw. When the sugar is well dissolved, put in the melon and pook until even and clear. Flavor as desired and can. NOVEL RECIPES. Dream Biscuits.--Two cups flour, Tour teaspoons baking powder, half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons but- ter, three-fourths cup of milk; mix dry ingredients and sift twice. Work in shortening with tips of fingers, add radually the liquid, mixing with a knife to a soft dough. Drop from tip of spoon on butter: ed tin sheet and bake in hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes. ; Chop Suey.--Two pounds porter- house, one-quarter box of spaghet- li, four medium sized gions, four medium sized tomatoes, four me- dium sized potatoes, five stalks of pelery, four tablespoons of catsup, t- and pepper. Boil spaghetti pn weak water, drain and blaacae; fry. onions' until nice and brown; freshly cooked potatoes are best, t cold ones will do if more con- venient ; chop separately, very fine, 'the meat, spaghetti, onions, toma- 8, potatoes, and . celery, then ¢ all together thoroughly with a yrge spoon. Add the catsup and n well with salt and pepper. hen all is mixed well together it in a baking dish, place in the n, bake forty-five minutes, stir or three times while baking.' amount will serve six people. bers and Cottage Cheese, > ed bread and serve at once. These are delicious hot weather sandwich- es. Swiss Steak--Thirty cents" worth of good round steak cut a good two inches thick. alt, pepper, and dredge thick with flour. . Pound with edge of a plate until flour is worked in. Put a good tablespoon- ful of lard into a frying pan. When het fry steak quickly a nice brown on both sides, then almost cover with hot wafer, and let simmer slowly for one hour and a half or two hours. Just as good as roast beef and much cheaper. Gravy is very nice. NEW ICE CREAMS. Cocoanut Peach Cream.--Remove the milk from the interior of a large cocoanut and place where it will become cold, meanwhile press through a fruit sieve a quart of peaches that have been pared and sliced (reserve a few bits for gar- nishing), add to these a cup of con- fectioner's sugar and place direct- ly on ice. At serving time add to the fruit a pinch of powdered cin- namon, one pint of stiffly whipped cream, add sufficient iced milk to the cocoanut milk to form two quarts; mix and serve from high crystal pitcher in which has been placed a pint of cracked ice, dust- ing the top thickly with grated nutmeg, garnish with sliced peach- es and large, ripe blackberries. Apple - Ice Cream.--Put two pounds of peeled and cut up apples in a saucepan; add one cupful of water, a small stick of cinnamon, one cupful of sugar and the rind and puice of one lemon. Cook quickly till soft, then rub through a sieve, and mix with two cupfuls of cream and two cupfuls of cus- tard. Freeze, and serve in Jainty small cups decorated with large seedless raisins. Rice Ice Cream.--Boil for five minutes two cupfuls of cream, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, the rind of one lemon, three bay leaves and one inch of cinnamon stick. Put three ounces of ground rice in a basin and mix it into a smooth paste with cold milk; add the boiled cream and simmer fifteen minutes. Pass through sieve; when cold, add one teaspoonful of va- nilla extract, and then freeze. Dur- ing the freezing add one cupful of whipped and sweetened cream. Serve in dainty cups, with ground almonds sprinkled on top. Make two pints of plain custard. When cool add one cupful of cream and orange marmalade, juice of a lemon and a tablespoonful of apple jelly. Freeze. Serve in cones de- corated with chopped nuts. VEGETABLES FOR WINTER. In order to have fresh, green parsley all winter, put it down in glass jars. First, a layer of pars- ley about two inches, then a layer of coarse salt one inch thick, and seal. Canned Tomatoes--Peel plump, medium-sized tomatoes and put them in glass jars without bruis- ing them; pack up to the top and pour over them stewed tomatoes boiling' hot. Partially tighten the lids, set on dripping pan on sever- al thicknesses of newspaper, add. warm water and cook in oven until tomatoes are thoroughly hot--about ten minutes. Tighten and set away The tomatoes may be used as fresh ones .in the winter, and the juice may be used in soups and sauces. Corn put Down with Salt,--Boi sweet, tender corn on the ear. When cool cut off the ear 'and put a lawyer t¥wo inches deep Into. .n stone jar. Cover with: a one-inch layer of coarse salt, and so on to weight with a small stone. Off ns- ing it in the winter, cover the corn stove until it becomes warm, turn off the water and reptat twice; then add milk, butter and pepper. boil in pieces fresh, plump beans: : Skim salted water as. for: table. to the top. To the remaining juice add one tablespoon vinegar for each quart of beans. Bring toa boil, pour over the beans, and seal. Parboil once when you open them in the winter; add cream, butter, and pepper. 4 x Rai TOMATOES. four good i toms the top. Cover; with a plate andl with cold. water, set on back of |: "Canned String Beans.--Cut into ) out the beans and; place in jars up, Tomato Preserves. --Pee! twenty- |: sprinkled over them, and let | | over night. Next morning tury in |' coiander and drain all water offi} Then chop separately two cups cel- ery, two cups onions, three sweet peppers, and add three cups light '| brown sugar, three pints vinegar, one. tablespoon cinnamon, - one | small tablespoon black pepper. Mix all togéther and can in' airtight cans. This is delicious and will keep a year or more, \ ere ee py J Let! CLAIMS ESTATE OF AN EARL. Claimant Says He is Descended From "Plymouth Smuggler." Australian newspapers give full details of the claim of William, Ward, a Melbourne builder, to the title and estates of the Earl of Dud- ley. ' The claimant, who, it is stated, will shortly visit England, left Lon- don for Australia in 1883. He as- serts that he is. descended in a direct line from Thomas, the son of the secona Baron Ward and eleven- th Lord Dudley. Of this Thomas, who was born about 1685, a romantic story is told. While a young man he married and settled down in the town of Great Torrington, situated on a hill above the river Torridge, seven miles out of Bedford. He soon made a re- putation for himself as "The Bold Smuggler of Plymouth." He then went to Jamaica, where he contracted a bigamous marriage with the daughter of a Spanish planter, and died in Kingston in 1736 leaving sons by both marriages. Some years ago the Devonshire Wards--from whom William Ward traces his r descent--began to put forward their claims, but without any substantial result. The pres- ent claimant is apparently deter- mined, however, to bring his case before the public, and it is with that objec. he is contemptlating an early visit to England. GERMANY SPREADING WINGS Busily Creating interests in All Parts of the World. Germany, in fact, is engaged ina career of world exploitation. In South America, Africa, the Far East, in Asia Minor, and all the dis- tant islands and continents of the seven seas German merchants and German money are sleeplessly at work creating "interests" for Ger- man warships to guard. The activi- ty of the Teutonic pioneer knights is as varied as finance and commerce themselves. They have invaded every avenue of human venture. They own vast domains the size of kingdoms in the Brazils. They con- trol thousands of miles of railways in Turkey and Asia Minor. They dominate the transportation and electric power situation in great capita's like Buenos Ayres. They monopolize the coffee plantations of Central America control mines and railways in the great Chinese province, work tobac- co plantations in Sumatra, rubber plantations in the Congo, cott.n plantations in Egypt and harness waterfalls in the heart of Africa. Their argosies, flying the flags of the North German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American line, carry pro- ducts 'made in Germany" to Ger- man warehouses in the world's re- motest corners. He WORDS OF WISDOM. The partition between gespect and snobbery is very thin, E "You can judge an woman's men- tal capacity by her clothes much better than you can a man's. Think before you make promises, and think before you break them. The great things in life is to avoid care by moderating one's desires and ambitions and one's love of worldly things. ' Friendship js like wine. matures or goes off. Our fault, as a nation, is that we think almost too much for our- selves, and perhaps not quite en- ough for our fellows. © Once you start thinking about yourself and your complaints, your health begins to'go. "- . Scandal and gossip are only other names, for lies: . It either PU NO FIGURE OF SPEECH. =. Of all the thin church, nothi Bishop Williams of Marquette. He had attend.d a synod he Cana- dian church at Winnipeg; and there had seen a missionary bishop, "who had been six weeks on the way, hav- ing come 'most of the distance in a canoe. The. missionary - t may befall a dould be much | Gao stranger than' the destruction of a | '™" little house of worship north of Hudson Bay, as once reported by}. FASHIONS OF BOOKS IY DIF: FERENT PRISONS. I Some Critieize Diekens--One Con |! viet Boasts of Having : Written a Novel. | + When the English criminal is put away for. a long term of: imprison- ment, he is in the way of becoming a connoisseur of literature, practising his highly-developed trade of annexing other folks! pro- perty, his acquaintance with books is usually confined to the volumes kept by bookmakers, but -once in- side jail he becomes an intellectual person. At least, if one is to judge by Home Office reports, he develops distinct literary preferences. There is a library in every big prison, run by the chaplains, as- sisted in some cases by well-behaved just as prone to intellectual fads in jail as in the cultured society from which they are drawn. There are men at Maidstone jail who demand the works of Bernard Shaw and Herbert Spencer, who despise the fiction of the day, and will only ac- cept works by their favorite high- class author. Often enough their demands cannot be met by the pri- son librarians. Curious fashions in books some- times run through a prison. The less-literate prisoners are subject to A CURIOUS FORM OF VANITY. and think that to be seen reading Shakespeare is a hall-mark of re- spectability. There is, consequent- ly, such a demand for the works of the Bard of Avon that it outruns the supply. Sometimes Dickens becomes the rage. Recently an ex-convict had something to say about 'Oliver Twist' in the way of criticism. "The general moral of that story is all wrong," he said. 'Look at Bill Sikes, with his black eye and his bulldog. A man who was get- ting such a lot of money as he was wouldn't be knocking about a neighborhood like Seven Dials. He'd be with the swell mob. Then there's Fagin, teaching boys to thieve. You'd never see an old man teach a boy. If a man in the swell mob was found taking an in- nocent boy out with hig nowadays, he'd stand a good chance of having his brains knocked out by the other professionals," - Among the most popular authors are six living writers. Mrs. Henry Wood heads the list, followed by Oharles Dickens, G. A. Henty, Rid- er Haggard, Sir Walter Scott, Wil- kie Collins, Captain Marryat, Alex- ander Dumas, Bilas Hocking, Miss Braddon, Charles Reade, Lord Lytton, Clark Russell, Charles Kingsley. Rolf Boldrewood, Walter Besant, Rosa N. Carey, Edna Lyell, Hall Caine, and Conan Doyle. VOLUMES OF MAGAZINES, American and English, are the fav- orite reading matter of the bulk of prisoners, when, no doubt, the articles illustrating the stately homes of England are studied with peeuliar interest by the burglars, In this connection, a good story is told by a Roman Catholic priest, who was perplexed by the desire of someé Roman Catholic prisoners to become Protestants, until he found that it- was because the Protestant. library contained volumes of "The nd zime,"' with "Sherlock Holmes' stories in them, while the Roman Catholic library did not; Other aspects of "prison *litera- ture are given by Frederic Martyn, who, in his book, "A Holiday in Caol;"' boasts of having written a novel in his'cell. This literary pri- soper is a veritable Mark Tapley, who asserts that the year and a half he spent in Wormwood Scrubs | prison 'was the "time eof his life. This is the picture he draws of his condition : "Free from all 'care, able to eat the prison food with enjoy- ment, and with practically as many books as I wanted. I had ) cenvi- | able time of it; 'and I Sten oui is, with dismay 'of the time when T' would 'be compelled' to mix again | in the busv. world; and be worried While | & They landlord and the rate collect: | ive te eo! which followed the féver fits. a8 Todies of very larg ere to be found in the rowil idea of when one was ill - the suggestion was top horrible, 4 x "Well, Dawson,' 1 would say, to change the conversation, "tell me what happened to the Reverend Mr. Jones ?' ' ""The Reverend Jones, at Doonguah, sa." . After another attack . Dawson : id hl prisoners. Educated prisoners are Rev quote his treatment of the v. Mr. Smith. '"'And what happened to the Rev- erend Mr. Smicn 1" I would in- quirie. . "He, sa, he die at Mansu." Later on the name of the Rever- end Mr. Brown would come up as another evidence in favor of. snail soup. - 'Tell me about the Reverend Mr. Brown," I would say, with .i creased feebleness of utterance, and, I may say,.of decreasing hope in that reverend gentleman's even- tual escape in that West Coast. "The Reverend Brown die at Accra, sa,"' Dawson would solmnly declare, But nothing appeared to shake his faith in the efficacy of his recipe. A gleam of the grim humor of the . situation would sometimes strike one. "Tell me, Dawson." I once said to this sable consoler of many weary hours, "tell me the name of some fever-stricken patient of yours who did manage to drag himself out of Was there any this horrible coast. one among these reverend gentle- men who got away 1' 3 Dawson thought for a moment. '"Phe Reverend Robinson," Then he added, 'I heard afterward he'die at Madeira, sa."' --_-- "THE BLACK DIAMOND." Piteb Lake Pays Better Than Gold or Diamond Mine. One of the natural wonders of the world is the great pitch lake of Trinidad, the most southerly island Pay- ing better than any gold or diamond mine, the lake is locally kifown as "The Black Diamond." An Ameri- can syndicate handles most of this of the British West Indies. natural asphalt under a concession from "the- Government, and from one corner of the lake obtains 800 tons every day. Close to the village of La Brea, the lake is inspected every year by numerous visitors to the island, for it is a curiosity not to be seen else- where. The lake lies 138 ft. above the sea, and is three miles in circumference. How deep it is nobody knows; for, all have failed, though many -at- tempts have been made to fathom it, + To all appearances, this is in- deed "the bottomless. pit.' : Beientists describe the pitch sub- -stances as floating on the surface ' of fresh water."" For three feet -dawn the pitch is solid enough to bear the weight of men, and, to allow their digging up in great slabs with pick- Under the hard pitch, cast up by subterranean fires, and under that Sgain is 'the fresh water of the lal PE - _ "'bituntinous axes and spades, surface is' liqui ar | ) of ' DUTCH, DOGS AS, DRUGES. sien in Holland. to, condi- from the 'dense | of the tropic foresté. The eating those great crawling globules would have been repugnant in the rudest: state of health, but be died An- he saidi © 'He left the coast at Accra." matter iro-Used as Beasts of Burd. The lot of some dogs in Holland 1a hi y one, for many : QUESTIONS "FOR | Tieskon + I.--Isaiah's Concerning" Beunacherib f nation' was Senna kin 'What ° nations 'did be conquer} What did he demand of Hezekia Of what did he boast? 'What did he say about Jehovaht W ro= phesied the salvation of. Judah( What did Isaiah prox hesy concern 'ing - Sennacherib ow was the prophecy fulfilled! i : Lesson 1I.--The Suffering. Ser- vant of Jehovah.--Who fussilied the prophecy concerning the Servant of Jehovah? Why was the Servant despized!. For whom did' he. suf fer! For what did men think he suffered? What did God lay upon him? How did he bear his suffer ing? What will be the result of hig sacrifice] How may we prevent hig having suffered in our 'behalf ir vain? © Lesson III.--Manasseh's Wicks edness and Penitence.--Whose son was Manasseh? How did he unde his father's good work? Waat did he erect in the temple? How did he influence the people? How did he receive God's warning? Who carried him away captive? Where was he taken? What change took place in hin: there! How did God reward his penitence? Lesson IV.--Josiah's Devotion ta God.--How old was Josiah when he became king? What great evil existed throughout his land ? Whom did Josiah seek ? What did he cause to be done with the heathen altars? What work did he undertake at Jerusalem ? N Lesson V.--The Finding of the Book of the Law.--Who found the book of the law in the temple? What did the book contain? Who read the book to King Josiah ? How did the reading impress Josiahf: Whom did Josiah send to consult with? What did Huldah tefl'him1 How did Josiah inform the people. concerning the newly found lawf. What did he cause the people te do : Lesson VI.--Jeremiah Tried and!' Acquitted. --What message did, God send Jeremiah to preachf When did Jeremiah first begin to preach? Jeremiah becorne most emphatic i his prophecies of destruction?! O what did the priests accuse Jere-. miah? Before whom was he triedi. - What defense did he make? What was the result of his trial! Lesson VII.--Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah no longer preach in pub- Who copied down Jeremiah's pro- = phecies in a book? Whom and where did Baruch read the bookf To whom did he read it? Who told the king about the book? What did Jehoiakim do with the 'book1 What did Jeremiah do after the first book was burned? | Lesson VIfI.--Jeremiah Cast In- to Prison.--Who kept an army, around Jerusalem to prévent a re- bellion? What caused 'the army to retire for a time? What did Jeremiah then decide to do? What happened to him at the city 'gate! What, was he accused of { What, did 'the princes-do with bim% Who imprisonment ! What - did the princes demand should be done with Jeremiah? ' ; Lesson IX.--Judah Carried Cap- tive to Babylon. Who besieged Jerusalem in Zedekiah"s reignt How long did the siege last? What happened to Zedekiah when he tried to escape! How was he pun- - ished? What did the Chaldeans do with Jerusalem? What was done | with the legders of Judah ?l,.<What was dond with the poorer glassés? "What became of Jeremiah? "suse caren ii - DREAD OMENS APPEAR. Under what king did» ~ the Prophet's Book. -- 'Why did . lic? What did God tell him to do? sent to consult' with' him?" How -° did Zedékiah try to' lighten hig --